Furniture.



OLE vIKoREN, OF WILooX, NEBRASKA.

FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 2. 1907. Serial No. 381.85%

Patented Dec. 17, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLE VIK6REN, a citizen of the United States, residingat Wilcox, in the county of Kearney and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Furniture, of which the following is a s ecification.

his. invention relates to furniture and more particularly to drawers'for use in connection therewith.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means whereby a drawer can be easily moved back and forth and will at thesame time be prevented from moving laterally and rattling. I

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings is shown the preferred form of the invention.

In said drawi s: Figure 1 is a plan view of a drawer an its guides and supports,.

portions of the guides being shown in section.

i 2 is an inner elevation of one of the uldes and supports for the drawer. Fig. 3 18- a detail view of a modifiedform of drawer guide. I Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1, 1 designate guide stri s each havin alining slots 2 the ein throug which extend bow springs 3. Ea h of these springs is fastenedat one end to the outer face of the strip 1 while its other end is des' ned to rest loosely upon the opposite end 0 the slot in which the spri is located. Theintermediate portions ii? the springs extend inward beyond the inner faces of the strips 1 so as to be contacted by a drawer 4 when the same is brought into position between the strips. As shown in Fig.1 the springs of each strip are referably oppositelty) arranged. Extendin aterally from the ottom plortion of eac strip 1 are pins 5 on whic are mounted antl-friction rollers 6. p

' Where guides are constructed in the manner herein described it will be. apparent that the drawer will be supported by the rollers 6 and therefore can be readily pulled outward or pushed inward. The springs 3 bear against the sides of the drawer and prevent it from moving laterally and therefore the drawer will be properly guided during its longitudinal movement and will also be prevented from rattling. v

The construction heretofore described is articularlydesiglned for high rade furniture ut if referred t e guides can e constructed at sli tly less cost by substituting supportin c eats 7 for the rollers and by utilizing on Iy one spring 3 as shown in Fig. 3.

m ortance is attached to the fact that one end 0 each spring isloose and that both ends bear upon the outer faces of the guide strips. As a result of this arrangement when a drawer is pushed into contact with the springs it pushes them outward and if the drawer should expand or swell there would be no danger of the same bindin upon the springs and becoming wedged in c osed position. Instead the innermost portions of the sprin s can, if desired, be moved outward until ush with the inner faces of the guide strips.

What is claimed is: v

1.- A drawer guide com rising a striphaving a longitudinal slot, a h at one end 'to the outer face of the stri and loosely contactin at its other end wit one end of the slot, t e intermediate-portion of the spring projecting through the slot, and a drawer, said intermediate portion being dis posed normally in the path of the drawer and movable thereby into the slot.

2. A drawer guide comprising oppositely disposed longitudinallyslotted. strips, oppositely dis osed bow springs connected to each str1p, eac spring being secured at one end to the outer face of the strip and having its other end loosely resting upon and retained by one ow spring secured to the outer face of one of the strips and havmy own, I have hereto afiixed my signature ing its other end loosely contacting with one in the presence of two Witnesses. Wall of a slot and retained thereby out of the OLE VIKOREN path of the drawer, the intermedlate portion ii of the s ring extending through said slot and Witnesses:

normal y in the path of the drawer. I. J. MERSHON,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as M. S. FULsoH. 

